Improvement in corners for tables



R. EWALD.

CORNERS FOR TABLES.

Patented Dec. 7,1875.

' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ROBERT EWALD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE BROWN AND CHARLESF. BLISS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORNERS FOR TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,722, dated December7, 1875 application filed December 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, ROBERT EWALD, of the city and county of New York,in the State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in theConstruction of Tables, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to what are known in the trade as knock-downtables, and consists in a corner-block for the framework of suchtable ofpeculiar construction, as hereinafter described.

The accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, is aview of my corner-block, seen obliquely from below.

A B is the corner-block, O O the end and side pieces of the table-frame,and D the removable leg. The corner-block A B is formed by gluingtogether the requisite number of pieces of wood to form the full widthof the table-bed, in such a manner that the grain of one piece shall runat an angle with the grain of the neighboring pieces, the whole thusforming a block of the utmost strength and tenacity. One of the sidepieces 0 is represented as drawn out a little to show one long mortiseand tenon for attaching the said pieces to the corner-block. On theupper end of the tableleg a large round tenon is formed, on which is cuta screw thread corresponding to a thread cut in the block A B from itslower side, so that the leg D may be firmly screwed into said block, andremoved at pleasure. The grain of the several pieces A B stands in suchrelation to the screw-threads that the threads may be smoothly andperfectly formed by ordinary machines, and will' be strongly supported.

I claim as my invention- The corner-block A B constructed of two or morepieces of wood, with the grain crossing each other, as described, andadapted to the reception of the side and end pieces G, and the leg 1),substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day ofDecember, 1873, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT EWALD. Witnesses:

WM. 0. DEY, ARNOLD HoRMANN.

